On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:25:03PM +1000, Chris wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > There was a thread a while back about deleting weird files. Just for > people interest I had to remove some strange ones today. They were as > follows: > > - ---------- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ?? > - ---------- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ?????? > - ---------- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ?????????? > > > Don't know how they made them, but trying rm '??' or rm \?\? or others > didn't work. I eventually did rm -rfi *, and said no to everything else. > However the strange files came up as follows: > > rm: remove `ÿø'? y > rm: remove `ÿøÿÿÿø'? y > rm: remove `ÿøÿÿÿøÿÿÿø'? y > > > Weird huh? Anybody know why they look different in the directory listing?
It's a "feature" of ls. If you use the '-N' switch, the real names will be displayed. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]